Julia Cameron Quotes - Page 5

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• Remembering that God is my source, we are in the spiritual position of having an unlimited bank account. Most of us never consider how powerful the creator really is. Instead, we draw limited amounts of the power available to us. We decide how powerful God is for us. We unconsciously set a limit on how much God can give us or help us. We are stingy with ourselves. And if we receive a gift beyond our imagining, we often send it back.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Powerful

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.126, Penguin

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• But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

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  Writing, Play, Piano

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.51, Souvenir Press

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• Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.

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  Moving, Needs, Use

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.88, Souvenir Press

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• We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

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  Art, Way, Originality

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.218, Penguin

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• When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.

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  Path, Right Path

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.247, Souvenir Press

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• The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

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  Art, Work, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.192, Penguin

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• Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

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  Writing, Breathing, Matter

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.12, Penguin

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• The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

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  Life, Moving, Growth

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.91, Penguin

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• Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

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  Creativity, Gestation Period, Ideas

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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• Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward. It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

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  Moving, Writing, Sight

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• Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.

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  Wise, Design, Tree

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• Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if we allow ourselves to do something badly we might in time become quite good at it. Perfectionism measures our beginner's work against the finished work of masters. Perfectionism thrives on comparison and competition. It doesn't know how to say, "Good try," or "Job well done." The critic does not believe in creative glee--or any glee at all, for that matter. No, perfectionism is a serious matter.

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  Jobs, Believe, Practice

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• It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

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  Artist, Careers, Waiting

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.91, Penguin

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• It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

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  Believe, Simple, Negativity

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.116, Penguin

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• Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

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  Roots, Anorexia, Artistic

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.257, Souvenir Press

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• Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

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  Creativity, Creative, Leap Of Faith

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• Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

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  Moving, Destiny, Grace

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• Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

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  Jobs, Writing, Creativity

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

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  Creativity, Dancing, Sculpture

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.158, Souvenir Press

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• we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

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  Passion, Writing, Yield

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.11, Penguin

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• We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

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  Loss, Parenting, Answers

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• Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

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  Artist, Order, Giving

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• At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

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  Beauty, Roots, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.14, Penguin

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• The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

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  Prayer, Artist, Grace

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Mar 18, 2017

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• When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

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  Creativity, Helping, Asks

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